
Communication Infrastructure Corporation
Santa Barbara, CA 2007 – Present
Telecommunications Engineering & Wireless Integrator
Department Manager – Field Survey Dept 2012-Present
Trained field surveyors, and may personally perform in-field site and path surveys to collect, format, analyze and deliver data for the design and deployment of terrestrial microwave paths.
Profit and Loss responsibility for departmental costs to ensure that the overall cost (direct and indirect) net a 27% profit margin on the team’s work year over year.
Provide monthly reports to Executive Team, to include Key Performance Indicators, productivity and pipeline outlook.
Work with Human Resources to perform annual reviews for field surveyors.
Maintains daily contact with field surveyors via e-mail and telephone; answer all questions the field surveyors may have.
Microwave Field Surveyor - Level 3 xxx-xxx-xxxx
Field Manager for AT&T LTE project; coordinated and collaborated with customer and contractors to provide line of site surveys in an efficient manner.
Carried out various audit checks to ensure the correct procedures have been carried out to identify any training requirements
Perform in-field site and path surveys to collect, format, analyze and deliver data for the design and deployment of terrestrial microwave paths
Extensive cell site surveys involving equipment identification, expansion availability and Visio drawings
Assist Transmission engineer in determining alternate paths to close out transmission rings
Field lead of 5-6 employees at a time, training and dispersing work to each of them
Nortel Networks
Richardson, TX 2000- 2007
Telecommunications Engineering & Wireless Integrator
BSS Network Integration Engineer
Installation and Integration of E3 BSC/TCU/BTS for Nortel Networks customers
Testing of T-1’s and DS3’s, using T-Berds, for BSC/TCU, BTS turn-up and testing
Responsible for software and hardware upgrade of OMCR server, workstations and BSS Network
Assist Nortel Networks RF engineering in collecting performance data doing drive testing and automated tools
Create scripts to implement frequency hopping, frequency retunes and radio adds for RF engineering
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering
North Carolina State University, College of Engineering
Skills
Operating Systems: Window (Win 7, XP); Solaris (2.6, 7, 8), DOS
SOFTWARE: MS Office 2010 (Excel, Visio, Word, Project); Pathloss 5.0/4.0; Delorme Topo
TOOLS: Advantage Laser Range-finder, T-Berd, Garmin GPS, Compass
Nortel Networks (E3 BSC/TCU, BTS, PCUSN, UHLR)
Sun Microsystems 4500 & V880 server, Sparc 5 workstation, Sun StorEdge T-3 Disk Array and Sun StorEdge A5200
Reference available upon request
Last Resume Update | November 6, 2014 |
Address | Cypress, TX |
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Resume File | Willie-Bethea-Field-Resume.doc 36.5 kB |
Spanish Speaking? | No |
Willing to Relocate? | No |